It’s official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch::Days after Evernote started testing a free plan with access to only one notebook and 50 notes, it has now made this change for all free users
It’s official: note taking app with 0 advantages over just plain ass notes synced via cloud signs death warrant.
For real, FOSS software that saves to a file folder and does all of this exists. They are just chasing us into their arms.
If you’re looking for a name drop, Joplin does nicely for my uses.
I also use Joplin!
I’ve heard Joplin is good. Also Obsidian is apparently amazing with plug-ins. I’m leaning towards Obsidian myself. But between Google and MS, I figured Keep and Evernote would’ve been impossible to challenge.
Obsidian is not FOSS though, right?
Thanks! That is good to know. I will check it out. I was thinking of creating one that allows you to BYOC. I need something that is free, cross platform, auto saves, and can keep offline copies. All for just basic note taking.
No way in hell I am going to pay a ton of money to store a bunch of text. I don’t even need any of the advanced functionality, not even images, just a dumping ground for text notes I take on my phone.
I haven’t used Evernote in at least a decade, I didn’t even think they were still around.
Yay FOSS. But RE: death warrant…
I can imagine it being a decent money move.You have a big user base that maybe isn’t really growing anymore. Anybody who wanted your shiny optional features is already paying for them. You’re not monetizing your free users.
What to do?
Kick everybody off the platform unless they pay up!
Now everybody who can afford your subscription but isn’t technical enough to search “migrate Evernote” is a customer.
And that’s probably more than like seven people too!
Obviously I’m not evaluating any business ethics here… just moneyyy!
Evernote still exists?
I can strongly reccommend logseq its a foss alrernative to obsidian. Its getting betger eveey day and i can definatly say the new database version is going to be awsome.
Does it have a spell-checker?
Yes but my keyboard doeant
Lol, tried them about 10 years ago, wasn’t impressed.
They’re still around, and think this is a good move? So many other, WAY better notebook apps.
MS OneNote works well on all platforms (except Linux!) for several years now, and blows Evernote away (it’s my Achilles heel).
And now apps like Joplin, Obsidian, etc, are closing fast on OneNote (and even better in some ways), and can sync with tools like Syncthing.
Obsidian + ExcaliDraw is mind-blowing. The integration is absurdly good! It can even render entire PDFs for highlighting (a bit slow but usable).
Only thing I don’t like about Obsidian is the UI. It’s just kinda clunky and obtuse. I find navigating around consistently confusing. Which sounds like a small gripe but if I can’t just open up a note taking app and get rolling I’m just less likely to take them in the first place.
Yeah, even the startup time needs some work. It’s more useful for when I’m doing other work that’s more involved.
I should give a try to ExcaliDraw, the fact is I usually download a plugin to respond to a need, and I’m not certain what Excalidraw answer as a need except draw
Here’s the developer showcasing some of the features. He has plenty of other videos and some are more interesting than others, but they’re overall pretty neat.
MS OneNote lags 200-300ms on M1 pro CPU…
re: OneNote
Although not a replacement for OneNote on Windows 10/OneNote in Microsoft 365, you can get Waydroid and run OneNote’s Android app with it.
I don’t have a stylus so I’m not able to check if everything works, but if it does, it’ll hopefully feel better than the web client, which wasn’t able to keep up with stylus strokes last time I checked. The number of pens is lacking though, even the iPadOS version is better…
I’ve always run the full desktop app on Windows (Office 2016 at this point). Pretty sure it supports writing/stylus.
I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop, when MS borks something with Onedrive so I can’t sync with this old version any more. Fortunately that will only impact mobile devices, my laptop/pc’s will continue to sync with each other.
They’re clearly pushing us away from full desktop apps, wanting us to use 365/SaaS instead. No thanks. Web apps/UWP suck.
I have been using Joplin with Dropbox sync. Syncs between my Desktop, Android, and iOS devices. Switched from Google Keep a few months back. Great app.
Try using Syncthing instead of Dropbox. Direct sync between all devices, encrypted, no cloud required.
iOS version is called Möbius.
I was using nextcloud at first but kept having sync issues. I use syncthing to sync my Libre office docs and it always disconnects on my Android. I bought Mobious a few months back to sync photos from my iPhone and it always disconnected. So I switched to photosync. So in other words syncthing hasn’t really been reliable for me. I use a free Dropbox account and haven’t had any issues since. And the best thing about Joplin desktop is there is a Backup plugin, so if my Dropbox ever went down, I still have multiple Backups saved locally and on my Proton Drive.
yup, do the same and its ALL encrypted so no snoop snoop by anybody.
I hit the 50 cap, then deleted about 30 unnecessary notes, and STILL couldn’t create more notes.
I replaced it with Draft Notes.
I mean, it doesn’t 50 active notes so I guess they decided that creation of 50 notes is what’s allowed regardless of how many active you have left.
…or it’s a bug, but generally I tend not to give businesses the benefit of the doubt.
I’ve never understood why anyone uses Evernote. Just use a folder with Markdown files. Or Obsidian. Or VS Code with plugins. Or EMacs org mode. So many good FOSS options out there (yes, I know VS Code isn’t FOSS but VSCodium is) that don’t lock you in. Hypocritical of me to say as an Apple user, but I hate when companies’ business models are to lock in consumers. Just make a better product that’s worth paying for.
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Is that very hard to do? Right click, save as html. Does obsidian only save references to files outside the vaults? I thought it made a copy of external files inside the vault too.
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Obsidian is awesome. It won’t meet everyone’s needs, but I love the lightweight simplicity of it. But it’s also extremely extensible with add-ons if you want to go down that rabbit hole.
100% agree. I personally haven’t got a use case that fits very well with it (maybe someday when I build a Zettelkasten), but I can see why the community loves it so much. Open source and a great library of plugins.
Edit: Turns out it isn’t open source and their terrible misunderstanding of open source doesn’t help.
Except that it isn’t open source
Huh, I stand corrected. I’ll update my comment.
If your going to use Zettelkasten you might look into Zettlr. Plus, it’s open source! 😀
Evernote used “Subscription model”. It hurt itself in its confusion.
Best thing about Evernote was its web clipping extensions… anyone use one that’s as good or better…?
joplin
Thanks, will give it a try!
Why does this message have a yellow background?
adding Quillpad, as another alternative
And here I was a sucker for using Simplemote this whole time. I missed out on my opportunity to get charged
I was a paying customer and would not have been affected by this. But it seemed like a crappy move and I didn’t support it, so I ended my subscription. I’ve switched to Obsidian, which is significantly better.
Old news, they already have implemented it around 2 weeks ago. I moved to LogSeq, it’s a bit more complicated than Evernote but it’s a really good alternative. Open source too.
Don’t forget to delete your account on your way out.
The only advantage of Evernote over everything else is it’s scanning of the contents of PDFs. I scan all my paper documents and stored them in Evernote for easy searching. Since I moved away from Evernote (to Joplin) that’s the only thing I missed. If anyone has a suggestion for replacing this I’d be very happy.
PaperlessNgx makes scanned documents searchable. Its great!
Now this looks promising. Thanks very much. I’ll give it a go.
I think OneNote can transpose text from images, but it’s been a while since I used the feature.
Yeah, it seems to work now. Didn’t used to work reliably a few years ago. Now, text within any document I save seems to come up in search shortly afterwards.
The app native to your phone is likely just as good and can “share to” your note app of choice. Microsoft Office Lens is still best in class for this , IMO though.
Most new phones camera app does that too. You van even search Google photos for specific documents by name like “passport” etc.
Standard Notes is a encrypted service alternative to Evernote. It’s a mature product with more than six year in the market.
Thanks but notepad works better
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